On 12/13/2021 4:35 PM, Taco Hoekwater via ntg-context wrote:

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On 13 Dec 2021, at 16:15, Jack Hill via ntg-context wrote:

Dear list,

I was playing around and found that nesting $$s inside of \m blocks typesets the code as text. I can't find anything about this on the wiki or in the math-mkiv manual, so I'm asking whether this is supported behaviour or just a bug?

I would say that this is unsupported expected behaviour ;)

It is better not to use $ at all (except when using it as a dollar sign when \asciimode is active).

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\starttext % All the same \mathematics{math $text here$ math} \\ \math{math $text here$ math} \\ \m{math $text here$ math} \\ \m{math \text{text here} math} \\

A bit over-precise maybe, but while the first three are the same, the last line is actually very subtly different.

The first three lines are essentially this in TeX82 :

$math $text here$ math\hfill\break

while that last line is

$math \hbox{text here} math\hfill\break

which indeed makes \starttext \mathematics{$text$} \stoptext a puzzle Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

On 12/13/2021 6:57 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:

On Mon, 13 Dec 2021, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:

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which indeed makes

\starttext \mathematics{$text$} \stoptext

a puzzle

Isn't that effectively:

$\relax$text$\relax$

which prevents the $$ lookup. Indeed, you solved it.

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